The Big Box O' Comics arrived today, and I've given most of it a quick run-through. So, so far...
The Alpha Lanterns? Deeply, deeply creepy. Also, pleased to see that Green Lantern Corps has not suddenly become The Kyle and Guy Show. (Although I'd buy that book, too.)
Captain America continues to impress. Even the guest artist in #35 wasn't bad. It isn't really a superhero story, though, is it--it occupies some sort of border territory between spandex and spy. Regardless, fun to read.
I am enjoying Wonder Woman more than I thought likely. I mean, I have reasonable faith in Gail Simone, but it's very apparent that Diana is incredibly difficult to write.
I'm going to miss Deadpool terribly, now that Cable and Deadpool is over. No, I'm not going to pick up Cable. Yes, I am going to pick up Deadpool, sight unseen. I hope he keeps his current supporting cast.
I also continue to enjoy Countdown. I'm not sure how much of it is the thing where I get four or five of 'em a month, though. :)
So, are the Skrulls who are invading aware of their Skrull-ness, or are they sleeper agents? Or some of each?
Luke Cage is being kind of a jerk.
You know, I pretty much supported the anti-registration side during Civil War, and even I think that Ms. Marvel needs to stop letting the New Avengers go at every opportunity.
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Luke's no jerk. Jessica's the jerk! She ran away for "safety" to a building that was just knocked over by the Hulk like last week. And before that GirlTron went all psycho in there. And they JUST stopped the Hood's dudes from blowing it up with cyborg nuke thingy...
Not. Safe. For. Baby!
If she wanted to run somewhere safe she should have gone to..Detroit? Sure. No one ever attacks Detroit...
They're ALL Skrulls, I'm tellin' ya...ALL of 'em!
The Alpha Lanterns are indeed quite creepy. But I MISSED having the Guy and Kyle show!
countdown does read a little better if you read one after the other.
it never occurred me that skrulls could be sleeper agents, that don't know there skrulls....wow!
luke cage ain't a jerk they took his baby how funny would it be if stark becomes the baby's step dad or something
lurkerwithout: Now, I didn't say that Jessica wasn't being a jerk as well. The whole "well, you can see the baby if you join up!" thing was pretty tacky.
But, from the dialogue, it didn't seem as though safety was Luke's primary concern. The only thing he mentions in that respect is the Skrull thing, which is as likely to be a concern among his own group as it is among the Mighties.
Also, it wasn't exactly a considered response on Jessica's part--in the NA annual, the villains break into their supposedly-mystically-safe HQ, Spider-Man grabs the baby and leaves in a big hurry, Jessica follows and he gives her the baby and tells her to "get out of here." She knows, obviously, that the Mighties' HQ is dangerous, they get attacked every so often and all--but now she knows that Strange's house is dangerous as well, that the bad guys can find them, and their group doesn't have the support system that the Mighties have. And, of course, she is in a state of panic--she doesn't know whether the New Avengers will prevail in their battle, she doesn't know if the villains will come after her as well, but she does know that she can't defend herself or the baby against an attack like that. It makes some sense that, in fear and desperation and with no where else to go, she would go there.
And like just about anyone else who's made a decision where they're uncertain that they were right, she's trying hard to make her peace with it--which means telling herself (and Luke) that she was right.
sallyp: I had assumed that most issues would include some Guy and Kyle, some everyone else, but maybe they are going to split it up more?
stephen: I suspect it does read better that way--not that I wish I'd waited for the trades (between 52 and Countdown I'd need a whole shelf!)
And I've actually been kind of assuming that at least some of the Skrulls must be sleepers, the ones that have been around long enough for their histories to be problematic otherwise. But I don't really know, of course.
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